Studies in health technology and informatics
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2014
Tourniquet Master Training for Junctional and Inguinal Hemorrhage Control (TMT).
Junctional and inguinal bleeding is a significant and challenging problem on the battlefield. Inventors have developed new types of tourniquets, including the Abdominal Aortic Tourniquet™ (AAT) and the Combat Ready Clamp™ (CRoC) to address these abdominal and pelvic injuries. ⋯ To address these needs, a sensor-enabled manikin was designed. Using the sensor data, the different phases of applying the tourniquet were captured and key performance was measured.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2014
Prediction of the prognosis of ischemic stroke patients after intravenous thrombolysis using artificial neural networks.
In general, around 80% of all strokes are ischemic. Take caring of the patients who have suffered an ischemic stroke is both expensive and time consuming. It is known that thrombolysis in patients with ischemic stroke can reduce the disability and increase the survival rate, however some patients still have poor outcomes. ⋯ The sensitivity, specificity and accuracy for model 1 were 77.78%, 80.43% and 79.27%, respectively, and 94.44%, 95.65% and 95.12%, respectively, for model 2. Artificial neural networks are used to establish prediction models with good performance to predict thrombolysis outcomes. These models may be able to help physicians to discuss and explain the likely outcomes to patients and their families before thrombolysis treatment.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2014
A Personal Health Record System for Diabetes Care Conforming to the ISO 16527 Interoperability Requirements.
A Personal Health Record (PHR) is a health information repository controlled and managed directly by a patient or his/her custodian, or a person interested in his/her own health. PHR System's adoption and compliance with international standards is foremost important because it can help to meet international, national, regional or institutional interoperability and portability policies. ⋯ Interoperability functions were added to this platform by integrating the Mirth Connect platform. The assessment of the platform's interoperability capabilities was carried out by a group of experts, who verified the interoperability requirements proposed in the ISO 16527 standard.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2014
Conceptual Model Formalization in a Semantic Interoperability Service Framework: Transforming Relational Database Schemas to OWL.
Healthcare information is distributed through multiple heterogeneous and autonomous systems. Access to, and sharing of, distributed information sources are a challenging task. ⋯ The proposed service makes use of an algorithm that allows to transform several data models of different domains by deploying mainly inheritance rules. The paper emphasizes the relevance of integrating the proposed approach into an ontology-based interoperability service to achieve semantic interoperability.
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Stud Health Technol Inform · Jan 2014
Online information retrieval systems and health professionals.
The following paper presents a scientific contribution that explores the clinicians' use of online information retrieval systems for their clinical decision making. Particularly, the research focuses on the ability of doctors and nurses in seeking information through MEDLINE and ScienceDirect. ⋯ The results testify that only a small percent of clinicians use the recommended electronic bibliographic databasesand take the right clinical decision to the scenarios. Health professionals have to be educated in information searching and take advantage from the provided literature taking more useful and reliable answers on their clinical questions.